Einstein and God

[quote]Oh? What can you tell me about Einstein or Planck?

They initiated a Nuclear Age consciousness and put an end to petty Steel Age ideas about conventional warfare. On the big stage the central question now is no longer imperial domination. It is either world peace or species annihilation. Since our specie may still be stupid, we are not mad, so Planck and Einstein are the heralds of and eventual end-game of World peace. The collapsing environment is helping to force all of us towards that conclusion.

[quote]Why the hell does nuclear theory have anything to do with preceding philosophy? Certainly it raises new questions, but it doesn't negate someone's whole body of work...you still like Christianity and Buddhism, do they suffer the same death at the hands of the atom?

Nuclear physics has arrived on the cutting edge of meta-physics. Mass is energy. Energy has no form. How can atoms be both particle and wave at one and the same time? Einstein and Bohr argued over Divine design and randomness without either able to convince the other. The ultimate question for science is [i]"How does consciousness fit into the nuclear equation and what is its purpose?"[/i] That trilogy of matter, energy and consciousness is essentially what religion has been inquiring into from the beginning. It seems to me that is why Heisenberg postulated his theory that the observer's consciousness affects the observed. Whatever the final answer - where religion once persecuted science, the pendulum has now swung the other way. Those extreme positions solve nothing. The answer always required effort from both sides of the brain, analysis and intuition working in harmony.

[quote] How about Aristotle?

Aristotle was a necessary religious protester. Without him we would never have arrived at the Nuclear equation. But he would have led science down a more peaceful and more holistic road if he has admitted that his master Plato was essentially right, and that matter cannot be defined by the physical senses alone.